Fionnuala Britton of Kilcoole went under the European Indoors qualifying mark (4.14) when she won the 1500m in huge personal best time of 4:13.96 at Day 2 of the Woodie’s DIY National Indoors in Athlone. Britton already has the mark for the 3000m and will race again over this distance in Stockholm on Wednesday evening.. […]
Ciaran O Lionaird ran a personal best 3:52.10 to finish third in the Wanamaker Mile at the Millrose Games and move up to fourth on the all-time Irish list. O Lionaird’s 1500m split time was 3:36.85 – well inside the Euro Indoors mark of 3:43. Lopez Lomong won the race in a sprint from Matt […]
David McCarthy of West Waterford ran a time of 7 mins 51.24 secs at the Valentine Invitational in Boston last night to qualify for the European Indoors. McCarthy had 19 seconds to spare on the second finisher, Stephen Sollowin. * At the Armagh International Road Races, also last night, Mary Cullen set a new course […]
Tom Fitzpatrick Judging by the past few weeks, the new indoor track at Athlone is lightning fast and we can expect lots of records at this weekend’s Woodie’s DIY National Indoors. Top of the list is Leevale’s Derval O’Rourke, who proved that her career is far from over when she ran 8.11 at Sheffield last […]
Tomas Fitzpatrick of Tallaght recorded one of the best results of his career to date when he won the Enniscorthy 10km in a time of 30 mins 13 secs today. Fitzpatrick forced the pace from the start and by the 3km mark, had a 10m lead on the 2012 winner Brian Maher of KCH and […]
Former Irish 400m record holder Paul McKee won the M35 60 in 7.19 secs and then set a new Irish record for the 200 of 22.36at the Woodie’s DIY National Masters in Athlone.UCD coach James Nolan, another former Irish international and Olympian, set a new M35 record of 4:00.76 winning the 1500m after pushing the […]
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